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Tiểu Cầm Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

Help me correct the sentence

Q: Not one in one hundred children exposed to disease are likely to develop symptoms of it
A. not one B.are C.likely to D.develop
I choose A because I think it is ''no one'', but the correction is B. I don't understand. Please explain it to me. Thanks
  

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B. It should be Not one . .

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B. It should be Not one . . . is . . . .
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That is not a very good test question. Native speakers disagree on this point. Technically grammatically, it's "is" because the subject is "one", but there are at least two other forces at work here. When the verb is so far away, it tends to attach itself to the nearest noun, the plural "children". And the sense of the sentence is that we are not actually talking about a single child but however m
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